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ceut of the woiuukHl will be crip2)kHl. These 

 figures, Dr. Hutchinson pointed out, were the 

 basis of the Germans' conclusion that inas- 

 much as a doctor, by returning about a 

 thousand men to the front every few weeks, 

 was worth to the Allies a battalion of in- 

 fantry, the Medical Corps and the Red Cross 

 were a fair target for artillery and aero- 

 plane. At least two thirds of the hospitals 

 Dr. Hutchinson visited had lieen bombed. 

 He spoke of the woik of rtM-onstriirtion and 

 reeducation in France, a work whicdi has 

 been so marvelously accomplished that three 

 fourths of the crippled soldiers who have 

 been taught new trades are earning more 

 than they did before the war. 



The American Museum will perpetuate the 

 memory of Sergeant Charles Connolly who 

 lost his life in the heavy fighting in France 

 in July, by planting a grove of fruit trees 

 on the Ourcq near Chateau-Thierry. 



The American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory through the department of public 

 education has prepared eighteen lectures for 

 use by the Young Men's Christian Associa- 

 tion in encampments at home and abroad. 

 These consist of stereopticon slides and 

 manuscripts prepared by various exjalorers. 

 The Museum has mainly borne the expense of 

 the preparation of these lectures. The cost, 

 however, has been materially reduced by the 

 volunteer help of the young women of 

 the department of public education, who 

 have contributed their services in coloring, 

 l)inding, and captioning the slides of the 

 lecture sets, and also in arranging and 

 captioning about four thousand slides that 

 were presented to the Young Men's Chris- 

 tian Association for war work. 



A HOSPITALITY room, or "canteen," for 

 men in uniform has been established by the 

 American Museum of Natural History on 

 the first floor of the building near the main 

 entrance. 



The American Museum War Relief Asso- 

 ciation has "adopted" two war orphans for 

 the period of one year, through the Belgian 

 Relief Commission for Babies and the Fund 

 for the Fatherless Children of France. 



Christopher Schroth, of the registrar's 

 office in the American Museum, greatly dis- 



tinguishetl himself in the fighting of the 

 last few mouths of the war, receiving eight 

 citations. He has recently been awarded the 

 Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in 

 action. 



The annual meeting of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences was held at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History on the 

 (>vening of December 16. The annual ad- 

 dress by Professor S. A. Mitchell, of the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, was delivered in the audi- 

 torium under the auspices of the American 

 Museum, the New York Academy of Sciences, 

 the American Scenic and Historic Preserva- 

 tion Society, and the Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences of Columbia University. Professor 

 Mitchell spoke on the general subject of 

 eclipses. He drew particular attention to 

 the great uncertainty of observation, men- 

 tioning instances in which parties had been 

 dispatched half around the world at great 

 expenditure of time and money, only to fail 

 in obtaining any results on account of 

 weather conditions. A feature of the obser- 

 vations made at Baker, Oregon, was the 

 attention paid to portraying the corona. 

 Through the interest of Mr. Edward Dean 

 Adams, the services of the accomplished 

 artist, Mr. Howard Russell Butler, N.A., had 

 been obtained, and a painting was made 

 that portrays the corona better than has ever 

 been done before. The finished painting was 

 exhibited in Memorial Hall of the Museum, 

 together with the sketches on which it was 

 based. 



The American Museum will continue its 

 Second Asiatic Zoological Expedition for 

 another year. The first expedition sailed 

 from the United States in March, 1916, and 

 the second in June, 1918, both under the 

 leadership of Mr. Roy C. Andrews, of the 

 department of mammalogy. So far Mr. An- 

 drews has canvassed especially the Chino- 

 Tibetan border and western tropical China 

 as far as Burma. He is at present in Peking 

 and proposes, as soon as the spring weather 

 arrives, to proceed to Urga in northern Mon- 

 golia. This town is situated near the junc- 

 tion of two life zones, the Siberian and the 

 ilongolian and Central Asian, and will ac- 

 cordingly make an ideal base camp. In this 

 region Mr. Andrews expects to take moose, 

 elk, wild boar, and other large game. After 

 a four months' stay in northern Mongolia, 



